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hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 373 pp. Illus. with photos (illustrator).

Hard Cover (x-library). Zustand: G-VG. Autobiography of Richard Raskind, athlete, Navy Lt. Commander and prominent surgeon, who became Renee Richards, professional tennis player, coach.and woman. X-lib with usual markings and labels. Dust jacket in plastic cover, flyleaves glued to boards. G-VG.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. NY: Stein and Day, 1983. First edition. 373pp; [16]pp b&w plates at center. Red paper over boards; gray quarter cloth; dust jacket. Toning to jacket, particularly front panel, with related offsetting and sunning to front board; strip of soiling along base of rear board. Very good in like jacket, unclipped. Signed and inscribed by Richards to ffep: "to Bob and Barbara, with love and affection - in first and second serve - Renée." First edition of this autobiography by American ophthamologist and tennis player Renée Richards (b. 1934). Notable as one of the first professional athletes to transition, Richards underwent gender affirming surgery in 1975. After refusing to be genetically tested to enter the 1976 U.S. Open, she sued the United States Tennis Association, and in a landmark case for trans rights, the New York Supreme Court ruled in her favor, deeming Richards female in the eyes of the law. Richards continued competing until retiring from professional tennis in 1981, when she returned to her career as an ophthamologist. An uncommon signature. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Corners lightly tapped else fine in fine dustwrapper with very slight toning. Inscribed by Richards to another tennis player, "whose first serve will take her all the way, with love and affection, Renee." The autobiography of tennis player Renee Richards, who was born Richard Raskin, and transitioned from male to female in the mid-1970s, and successfully sued the U.S. Tennis Association to be able to play in the U.S. Open as a woman. In 1977, at age 43, Richards made it to the women's doubles final, losing to a pair that included Martina Navratilova, whom she herself would later coach. One of the first high-profile cases of transgender identity in the U.S. Especially uncommon signed. Signed.…